Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

by Bruce Krajewski

A bold venture into the realm of contemporary literary theory, this book takes as its point of departure "the nexus between philosophical hermeneutics and rhetoric" that Hans-George Gadamer discusses in his writings. But rather than simply explicating Gadamer's theoretical insights, Bruce Krajewski applies them to a series of discrete texts, from Jan Steen's painting Rhetoricism at a Window, to Shakespeare's Coriolanus, to the post-modernist film...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238159
• ISBN13: 9780870238154
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.